UACES Student Forum Research Conference

Belfast, United Kingdom

29-30 June 2015

This two-day research conference aims to provide a friendly environment in which postgraduate students can gain experience of presenting research and develop contacts with other researchers in their field. The conference is aimed at research students of all levels and proposals are welcome from students working in the field of European Studies within various disciplines.

The Balsillie School of International Affairs will host a Global Political Economy dissertation workshop from April 22 to 24 2015. The workshop will give Ph.D. students the
opportunity to present work in progress to an interdisciplinary audience of faculty and students.

Framework:

Ph.D. students will present either a dissertation proposal or a draft thesis chapter. All participants (students and faculty) will read all of the submitted papers in
advance. Half an hour will be devoted to each paper on each day of the workshop. On April 23, each paper will be introduced by a student discussant, and there will then be open
discussion of the paper; the author will not be permitted to speak. On April 24, the author will lead off the discussion with a response to the previous day’s comments and critiques,
and then the floor will be opened. Faculty will participate in the discussion on both days, but students will be encouraged to take the lead. The workshop will thus give students the
opportunity to get feedback on their own work, to gain experience of discussing the work of others, and to make connections with students and faculty at other universities.

Keynote:

Dr. Tony Porter of McMaster University will give the keynote address on the
evening of April 22.

Eligibility:

Students will need to be able to submit either an extended dissertation proposal or a draft thesis chapter by April 7 2015. Applications from students in the second year of
their program or higher will be prioritized. In assessing the applications, we will take a broad view of the scope of topics covered by GPE/IPE, but we particularly encourage applications
from students who are explicitly engaging with GPE/IPE debates.

Application and Deadline:

Please submit a 500-word summary of your proposal or chapter to Dr. Derek Hall at dehall@wlu.ca by January 19 2015.

Include with your submission your contact details, the name of your academic program, and your current year level. If you may be able to cover some or all of your travel and accommodation costs, please indicate this in your application. Decisions will be made by early February 2015.

Funding:

We hope to be able to provide funding for participants’ travel, accommodation and meals. Travel funding for students from outside of North America will be limited.

]]>http://viessmanncentre.ca/call-for-proposals-phd-disseration-workshop-in-global-political-economy/feed/0The Viessmann European Research Centrehttp://viessmanncentre.ca/about-us/
http://viessmanncentre.ca/about-us/#commentsTue, 16 Dec 2014 10:49:04 +0000http://viessmanncentre.ca/?page_id=1139The Viessmann European Research Centre is devoted to fostering and disseminating research about Europe. The academics and other scholars affiliated with the Centre share an interest in the broad lessons learned from the movement towards a more highly integrated and unified Europe, economically and politically. Europe is, in many respects, a laboratory for the study of cooperation and integration among diverse states with lessons, both good and bad, from the creation of a supra-national system of governance. Yet, Europe remains diverse and member states of the European Union retain a considerable amount of sovereignty that is reflected in policies governing all areas of life in Europe. Scholars and practitioners from around the world can draw inspiration, and possible areas for concern, over developments in Europe during the last few decades. Our research into innovative governance, community sustainability, food systems, climate change and economic policy seeks to generate new knowledge and a deeper understanding of Europe and European integration. The Centre welcomes anyone who shares in these interests.

Contact the Centre’s Director, or its Associate Director, for more details.

Call for papers

The economic and financial crisis has unrevealed several imbalances and asymmetries in Europe, particularly in the Eurozone. Prior to the crisis, international competiveness had substantially diverged, leading to an unprecedented accumulation of net external liabilities in the peripheral countries. At present, partly as a consequence of inadequate macroeconomic management, and of the feedbacks between banks and sovereign, some countries have witnessed a swift deterioration of their public debt sustainability. The ECB is insistently requested to adopt unconventional monetary policies, but at the same time it is confronted with large business cycle asymmetries, questioning the appropriateness of a common monetary policy. As far as fiscal policy is concerned, austerity measures have resulted in high unemployment in some countries, but their effectiveness in addressing the causes of the imbalances still needs to be assessed. Furthermore, income distribution has been shifting at the expense of wages. All these asymmetries endanger social cohesion and also the future growth potential.
This workshop provides an opportunity for all those interested in the issue of economic asymmetries in the Eurozone structure, design, and management, with a special focus on the economic, social and political costs of these asymmetries, to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the workshop’s special topic. We welcome papers from the following fields: international finance (F30), international lending and debt problems (F34), international relations and international political economy (F50), sovereign debt management (H63), economic history: financial markets and institutions (N20), economy wide country studies: Europe (O52), comparative studies of countries (O57). In particular, we are interested in papers related to the following topics:
•Structural asymmetries between Eurozone member countries

•Business cycle asymmetries in the Eurozone

•The Eurozone and the conditions of an Optimum Currency Area

•Public debt crisis

•Fiscal policy and public finance

•Size and symmetries of fiscal multipliers

•Financial and capital markets, banking

•Labour markets

•Asymmetries in macroeconomic policy rules

•Monetary and financial economics

•Economic and econometric modelling of asymmetric behaviour

Keynote speakers

• Prof. Lars FeldLars P. Feld holds the chair for Economic Policy and Constitutional Economics at Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and is the president of the Walter Eucken Institute. His research focuses on economic and fiscal policies, the emerging field of New Political Economy, and the economic analysis of law. In March 2011 Prof. Feld was appointed to the German Council of Economic Experts.

• Prof. Philippe WeilPhilippe Weil is professor of economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is research fellow of the London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research and president of its Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee. His research interests are macroeconomics and finance, and he done extensive work on asset pricing, bubbles, representations of attitudes towards risk, fiscal policy, time use by gender across countries and time and, more recently, on optimal long-run inflation in the presence of corporate taxes and financial constraints

Submission of papers

Only full papers may be submitted, preferably in pdf format. Papers should be submitted to the conference organizer, Alberto Bagnai (bagnai@unich.it). Deadline for paper submission is February 15th, 2015. Authors are allowed to submit more than one paper. We will confirm receipt of your submission. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed according to a high-quality and fast referee process. You will receive an e-mail indicating whether your paper is accepted for presentation during the workshop or not before March 15th, 2015.

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is pleased to announce the 2015 ZEW Public Finance Conference. Papers on all fields of public finance are welcome. The particular focus of the 2015 annual conference will be on European tax policy, including, (but not restricted to), research on:

Tax competition, tax base erosion, and profit shifting

European tax harmonisation

Analysis of tax reforms

Fiscal governance and fiscal institutions

Fiscal federalism

Political economy of tax and budgetary decision making

Keynote Speakers

Claus Thustrup Kreiner (University of Gopenhagen, Denmark)

Wolfgang Schön (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich)

No restriction is put on methods used – theoretical, econometric and experimental approaches will be covered. The school will be of interest to those working on topics including (but not limited to) economics of standards, pollution taxes, tradable permits, comparative performance of instruments, Self-regulation, Information-based regulation, disclosure programs and green labeling, Impacts of regulation on R&D and innovation, Enforcement and compliance, Assessing the impact of regulations on behavior, Cost-benefit analysis of actual regulations, International coordination of regulation, Formal analysis of regulatory institutions, Political economy of environmental regulation.

The Summer School is targeted to PhD and postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of each student’s doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but not to have necessarily completely finished their thesis.
Application is restricted to 2015 EAERE members, both European and non-European citizens.
Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants is limited to 20.
There is no participation fee. All applicants can apply for a scholarship.

]]>http://viessmanncentre.ca/2015-eaere-feem-viu-european-summer-school-in-resource-and-environmental-economics/feed/0Laurier welcomes Carolyn Wilkins, Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada, to campushttp://viessmanncentre.ca/laurier-welcomes-carolyn-wilkins-senior-deputy-governor-bank-of-canada-to-campus/
http://viessmanncentre.ca/laurier-welcomes-carolyn-wilkins-senior-deputy-governor-bank-of-canada-to-campus/#commentsTue, 21 Oct 2014 15:10:05 +0000http://viessmanncentre.ca/?p=3220The Viessmann Centre, along with LCERPA and Laurier’s School of Business and Economics are pleased to have Carolyn Wilkins as our Economist-in-Residence. She will be speaking on “Money in a Digital World” at Laurier in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall at 3 pm on November 13, 2014. Additional details can be found at laurieralumni.ca

To register for this free event, RSVP to Patrycja Gadomski-Cebo at pgadomski@wlu.ca.

Center for Financial Research at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), Center on Sustainable Architecture for Finance (SAFE) at Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany) and NYU Stern Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions (New York, US) are co-sponsors of three conferences to be held respectively in Tokyo, Frankfurt am Main, and New York in the next two years.

The objective of these three conferences is to bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers working in the area of sovereign bond markets. The participation of speakers such as prominent academics, industry experts as well as senior officials/researchers from the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research, investment/trading and policy-making at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications of recent events in sovereign bond markets and may, in turn, suggest fruitful directions for future research. The three Conferences are organised under the auspices of the CREDIT Network (Venice, Italy) and SYRTO project and would be dedicated to various aspects of sovereign bond markets.

A key motivation for the three conferences is to address the effects of recent non-standard central bank policy measures, such as government bond purchases and large liquidity injections, on sovereign risk and sovereign bond markets, especially given that these measures would ultimately have to be unwound.

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVEREIGN BOND MARKETS

Determinants of Sovereign Bonds Yields and the Effectiveness of Central Bank Intervention

Frankfurt, Germany

March 10-11, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organizers encourage submissions on the following areas, but other related areas may also be considered: